Willem Quotes

“Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

“Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Year

“It was just one day and it's been just one year. But maybe one day is enough. Maybe one hour is enough. Maybe time has nothing at all to do with it". Willem”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Year

“I miss my father. I miss my grandfather. I miss my home. And I miss my mother. But the thing is, for almost three years, I managed not to miss any of them. And then I spent that one day with that one girl. One day ... It was like she gave me her whole self, and somehow as a result, I gave her more of myself than I even realized there was to give. But then she was gone. And only after I'd been filled up by her, by that day, did I understand how empty I really was.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Year

“Dear Willem:
I’ve been trying to forget about you and our day in Paris for nine months now, but as you can see, it’s not going all that well. I guess more than anything, I want to know, did you just leave? If you did, it’s okay. I mean it’s not, but if I can know the truth, I can get over it. And if you didn’t leave, I don’t know what to say. Except I’m sorry that I did.
I don’t know what your response will be at getting this letter, like a ghost from your past. But no matter what happened, I hope you’re okay.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

“Tabula rasa... time to hacer borrón y cuenta nueva, wipe the board clean," the singer chants.
Wipe the board clean? I feel like my board is too clean, perpetually wiped bare. What I want is the opposite: a messy scrawl, constellations of indelible things that can't ever be washed away.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Year

“I am adrenaline slammed into inertia: a fast car stuck in traffic.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Year

“What's the big story?" he asks.
"We're slacker playboys with trust funds, renting a house on Isla Mujeres."
"So, aside from the house, you're pretending to be you?”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Year

“Se on ensimmäinen suudelma, jonka hän on elämänsä aikana antanut omasta aloitteestaan, ja hän toivoo sen kertovan Willemille kaiken, mitä hän ei voi sanoa, edes pimeässä, edes aamun harmaassa kajossa: kaiken mitä hän häpeää, kaiken mistä hän on kiitollinen. Tällä kertaa hän pitää silmät kiinni ja kuvittelee, että pian itsekin pääsee sinne, minne ihmiset menevät suudellessaan, harrastaessaan seksiä: maahan jossa hän ei ole koskaan käynyt, paikkaan jonka hän haluaa nähdä, maailmaan joka toivottavasti ei ole häneltä ikuisesti kielletty.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“My anger feels hot and bilious but I keep it bottled until it doubles back and I'm mad at myself.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Year

“he feels, as he increasingly does, that his life is something that has happened to him, rather than something he has had any role in creating.”
― Hanya Yanagihara